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Barring a few lapses of taste, Up In Arms is fun to watch, good to look at. Dinah Shore puts a lot of warmth into her characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is Danny Kaye (of Broadway's Lady in the Dark and Let's Face It), making his screen debut. Kaye's mimicry, patter and general daftness are as deft as a surgeon's incision...
...above the river the big stone-and-stucco mansion house stood in its park, dignified, comfortable, a little shabby. Trees, paths, lawns and gardens, groomed carefully by five generations of gardeners, looked dull now in the winter tag-end. But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room-where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual...
...must come to understand," said McGonegal to the boy, "that warmth comes from the heart and not from the hands, anyway...
...blond, blue-eyed Governor Warren seems to radiate goodness and warmth. Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in everything they have to say, his visitors often begin to fit him into a scheme of history. They see him not merely as a perfect political candidate, but as the forerunner in U.S. politics of a new era of friendly men to succeed the recent era of angry men-the era of the Burt Wheelers, the Fiorello LaGuardias, the Huey Longs, the Harold Ickeses...
...President looked fine: vigorous, firm, clear-eyed. But something has gone. That surpassing warmth, that almost electric personal magnetism that was such a tangible things, is dim, or seemed so. He seems more than two years older. Even his polka-dot tie, his lack of vest (as always), his rough, pale grey summer suit seemed too youthful...